Patients Left Unattended After Chaotic Shanghai Hospital Lockdown

A health worker (C) helps people to fill the information requested in an app to obtain a code and be able to be tested as a measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus near the Shanghai Jin'an Central Hospital, in Shanghai on March 14, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

The Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital (the 6th Hospital) suspended medical services, including surgery, due to a surge of inhouse COVID-19 infections.

The 6th Hospital went into lockdown on March 7 and many scheduled operations were suspended due to anesthesiologists and nurses being isolated in the outbreak.